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We're all exposed to traffic accidents. So we take precautions with road infrastructure (eg traffic lights, zebra crossings etc). Going from being exposed occa

by harry8 5y ago

We're all exposed to traffic accidents. So we take precautions with road infrastructure (eg traffic lights, zebra crossings etc). Going from being exposed occasionally to being exposed less often than that is a good thing! Same as crossing a road being exposed to being hit by a vehicle. You don't have to "just accept it". Minimising risk given acceptable levels of cost of doing so is a good thing! Think of better ventilation like fitting pedistrian crossing lights in dangerous intersections. It's not going to eradicate all traffic, obviously.

nradov 5y ago
You're not thinking things through. You might be able to delay exposure for a while but you won't be able to prevent it forever.
- ceejayoz 5y ago
  You can limit the level and frequency of exposure via things like ventilation, and we're pretty sure viral load matters for how sick you get.
- harry8 5y ago
  No you're not. Really. I think you're living in a world where you believe if you've had covid you're done and you will never get it or future variants again. That's not how it is. The less often you contract a covid-19 variant the healthier /you/ are likely to be. For the immunocompromised contracting it /never/ is attainable. The less of it around, the lower the velocity of transmission the easier that goal is to attain. "just give up" is not acceptable policy in either intent or outcome. It's mental, in fact.
  - nradov 5y ago
    Nonsense. SARS-CoV-2 is just one more endemic coronavirus. No one is giving up; the vaccines and other treatments reduce the infection fatality rate close to zero. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2108120 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2108120
    - harry8 5y ago
      Which variant is that again? All future variants? Must be tricky to get data on that. It's hard enough for reinfection with the Omicron variant and that actually exists in the wild. Death toll this week seems a little higher than your assertion of zero fatality rate would suggest is possible. There's a difference between what we want to be true and reality. Our job is to minimise that difference.

by harry8 5y ago

nradov 5y ago

You're not thinking things through. You might be able to delay exposure for a while but you won't be able to prevent it forever.

ceejayoz 5y ago
You can limit the level and frequency of exposure via things like ventilation, and we're pretty sure viral load matters for how sick you get.
harry8 5y ago
No you're not. Really. I think you're living in a world where you believe if you've had covid you're done and you will never get it or future variants again. That's not how it is. The less often you contract a covid-19 variant the healthier /you/ are likely to be. For the immunocompromised contracting it /never/ is attainable. The less of it around, the lower the velocity of transmission the easier that goal is to attain. "just give up" is not acceptable policy in either intent or outcome. It's mental, in fact.
- nradov 5y ago
  Nonsense. SARS-CoV-2 is just one more endemic coronavirus. No one is giving up; the vaccines and other treatments reduce the infection fatality rate close to zero. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2108120 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2108120
  - harry8 5y ago
    Which variant is that again? All future variants? Must be tricky to get data on that. It's hard enough for reinfection with the Omicron variant and that actually exists in the wild. Death toll this week seems a little higher than your assertion of zero fatality rate would suggest is possible. There's a difference between what we want to be true and reality. Our job is to minimise that difference.